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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
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- Boris Pasternak
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- Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
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